crictime Posted May 31, 2025 Posted May 31, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, tapandrun said: It would be hard fr an opener to finish up the game so its acceptable if they can not finish the chase or an innings in a t20 game. But while chasing as a batter which ever position they are playing, where they need to keep the team ahead of the game so that incase if a wkt falls next batter does not have to go from ball 1. specially when they are chasing an above par score by 8-10 runs against 2 intnl bowlers of v.high quality gassing out for a batter is normal thing at the end of their innings and specially for batter who are relying on 1s/2s Strike rate of openers this IPL: Jonny Bairstow : 213 Vaibhav Suryavanshi : 206 Abhishek Sharma : 193 Ayush Mhatre : 188 Priyansh Arya : 182 Sunil Narine: 170 Prabhsimran Singh : 166 Mitchell Marsh : 163 Travis Head : 162 Yashasvi Jaiswal : 159 Sai Sudarshan : 156 Shubman Gill: 155 Ryan Rickleton: 150 Ruturaj Gaikwad : 150 Rohit Sharma : 150 GT openers need to use powerplay the way other openers are using. Edited May 31, 2025 by crictime tapandrun 1
tapandrun Posted May 31, 2025 Posted May 31, 2025 3 minutes ago, crictime said: Strike rate of openers this IPL: Jonny Bairstow : 213 Vaibhav Suryavanshi : 206 Abhishek Sharma : 193 Ayush Mhatre : 188 Priyansh Arya : 182 Sunil Narine: 170 Prabhsimran Singh : 166 Mitchell Marsh : 163 Travis Head : 162 Yashasvi Jaiswal : 159 Sai Sudarshan : 156 Shubman Gill: 155 Ryan Rickleton: 150 Ruturaj Gaikwad : 150 Rohit Sharma : 150 GT openers need to use powerplay the way other openers are using. GT's approach was as Ind and Pak team's approach to t20 games top 2/3 batters consumes all the resources and play with-in themselves and get big scores but low sr which makes them fall short of having above par score and the bowling needs to do it for them. Pak at one time had a good bowling set-up for a t20 game with a bowling unit not having a mystery spinner. Sai / Gill / Buttler were consistent thought out IPL and one match where it mattered they were short --does it reminds similar pattern ???? Their bowling dint work and they lost one of the opener early and 3rd batter of this trio was not available. Opening has gone to next level yes some of these teams where openers with high SR were not able to go further in the competition but things have changed. GT openers are lacking 6 hitting capability and maximizing pp. Supporters here would say they had 1 bad game and they lost buttler in important match, but those who can see whats wrong with the team can tell whats happening. crictime 1
crictime Posted May 31, 2025 Posted May 31, 2025 28 minutes ago, tapandrun said: GT's approach was as Ind and Pak team's approach to t20 games top 2/3 batters consumes all the resources and play with-in themselves and get big scores but low sr which makes them fall short of having above par score and the bowling needs to do it for them. Pak at one time had a good bowling set-up for a t20 game with a bowling unit not having a mystery spinner. Sai / Gill / Buttler were consistent thought out IPL and one match where it mattered they were short --does it reminds similar pattern ???? Their bowling dint work and they lost one of the opener early and 3rd batter of this trio was not available. Opening has gone to next level yes some of these teams where openers with high SR were not able to go further in the competition but things have changed. GT openers are lacking 6 hitting capability and maximizing pp. Supporters here would say they had 1 bad game and they lost buttler in important match, but those who can see whats wrong with the team can tell whats happening. Strike rate is now given importance the way the new Indian openers are striking in IPL. And it is good in a way that it exposes those who are slow in comparison. Even MI openers are wasting power play. Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton are around 150 this IPL. One can get away when playing against GT, but PB openers are mauling bowlers in powerplay. PB openers will not bat like GT did. Either they will go boom or get out. Wont waste balls. MI need to be ahead of PB right in the powerplay as well. In a short format playing catch up approach is very risky strategy. Every ball needs to be accounted for. Not really keen about what GT will do. It's their problem to solve it and I am least bothered if they keep batting at sr 150. What Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson do batting as openers is what I am keen about. Abhishek has sr of 192 and Sanju has sr of 152 that too against international team bowlers. I dont think India ever had openers batting at that sr before ever in T20i. Abhishek has taken it to altogether different level even in international matches, lest alone IPL. tapandrun and rollingstoned 2
tapandrun Posted May 31, 2025 Posted May 31, 2025 (edited) 5 hours ago, crictime said: Strike rate is now given importance the way the new Indian openers are striking in IPL. And it is good in a way that it exposes those who are slow in comparison. Even MI openers are wasting power play. Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton are around 150 this IPL. One can get away when playing against GT, but PB openers are mauling bowlers in powerplay. PB openers will not bat like GT did. Either they will go boom or get out. Wont waste balls. MI need to be ahead of PB right in the powerplay as well. In a short format playing catch up approach is very risky strategy. Every ball needs to be accounted for. Not really keen about what GT will do. It's their problem to solve it and I am least bothered if they keep batting at sr 150. What Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson do batting as openers is what I am keen about. Abhishek has sr of 192 and Sanju has sr of 152 that too against international team bowlers. I dont think India ever had openers batting at that sr before ever in T20i. Abhishek has taken it to altogether different level even in international matches, lest alone IPL. Ind team does not have to follow the GT's template , this was kind of in many ways similar template Ind was following. But Gill being made the captain of Test side and he is already a permanent member of Odis, there are high chances they will bring him in t20i too. Either they will have him bat at 3 as Sky has already started playing at no. 4 again and they are just waiting for either abhishek or verma to go out of form which creates space and bring gill in. Or they would ask sanju to play in mo. Its clear they do not mind a 35 avg. opener captaining the test side . Once you put limited player in t20 side then you have to set-up team accordingly to cover up the gaps. Pak and Ind t20i teams are good example of this. Pak team made Fakkar to play in mo, they wanted every batter in mo to play 5-10 balls and score 20-25 which is why no-one was able to develop any kind of game in mo. Ind never developed a power hitter or a finisher in t20 because of how team was set-up. there was no game changer in the Mo. Sky only came got the Ind cap after 3 good IPL seasons and he was playing for MI. Edited May 31, 2025 by tapandrun
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